I’m the freaky version of that superhero who says, wherever there is injustice, I shall be there. Whenever there is a difficult project, I’d like to be there.
GUILLERMO DEL TOROI really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
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I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I’d love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
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But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
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I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.
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There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there’s the super vampires, which are a new breed we’ve created.
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I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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There are a lot of period movies where they say, ‘This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.’ And it’s done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
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Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.
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You can’t explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
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If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Movies that look safe are less interesting.
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For Devil’s Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss.
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